The Other Cold War /
Kwon, Heonik
The Other Cold War / Heonik Kwon. - 1 online resource (232 p.) - Columbia Studies in International and Global History .
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1 -- Part 2 -- Part 3 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
In this conceptually bold project, Heonik Kwon uses anthropology to interrogate the cold war's cultural and historical narratives. Adopting a truly panoramic view of local politics and international events, he challenges the notion that the cold war was a global struggle fought uniformly around the world and that the end of the war marked a radical, universal rupture in modern history.Incorporating comparative ethnographic study into a thorough analysis of the period, Kwon upends cherished ideas about the global and their hold on contemporary social science. His narrative describes the slow decomposition of a complex social and political order involving a number of local and culturally creative processes. While the nations of Europe and North America experienced the cold war as a time of "long peace," postcolonial nations entered a different reality altogether, characterized by vicious civil wars and other exceptional forms of violence. Arguing that these events should be integrated into any account of the era, Kwon captures the first sociocultural portrait of the cold war in all its subtlety and diversity.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780231153041 9780231526708
10.7312/kwon15304 doi
2010017652
Cold War--Social aspects.
History, Modern--1945-1989.
World politics--1945-1989.
HISTORY / World.
D843 / .K95 2010 D843 / .K95 2010
900
The Other Cold War / Heonik Kwon. - 1 online resource (232 p.) - Columbia Studies in International and Global History .
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1 -- Part 2 -- Part 3 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
In this conceptually bold project, Heonik Kwon uses anthropology to interrogate the cold war's cultural and historical narratives. Adopting a truly panoramic view of local politics and international events, he challenges the notion that the cold war was a global struggle fought uniformly around the world and that the end of the war marked a radical, universal rupture in modern history.Incorporating comparative ethnographic study into a thorough analysis of the period, Kwon upends cherished ideas about the global and their hold on contemporary social science. His narrative describes the slow decomposition of a complex social and political order involving a number of local and culturally creative processes. While the nations of Europe and North America experienced the cold war as a time of "long peace," postcolonial nations entered a different reality altogether, characterized by vicious civil wars and other exceptional forms of violence. Arguing that these events should be integrated into any account of the era, Kwon captures the first sociocultural portrait of the cold war in all its subtlety and diversity.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780231153041 9780231526708
10.7312/kwon15304 doi
2010017652
Cold War--Social aspects.
History, Modern--1945-1989.
World politics--1945-1989.
HISTORY / World.
D843 / .K95 2010 D843 / .K95 2010
900